Improvement in bottles for perfumery



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Botti'es for Perfumery, &c.

Patented March 24,1874.

WILLIAM D. WHITING, OF NORTH ATTLEBOBOUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, AND \VILLIAM M. OOWAN AND CHARLES E. BULKLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN QCTTLES FGR PERFUMERV, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,018, dated March 24, 1874; application filed July 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM D. XVIIITING, of North Attleborough, Bristol county, Massachusetts, WILLIAM M. COWAN, of New York city, in the State of New York, and CHARLES E. BULICLEY, of the same city, have invented certain new and useful Improvements relating to Bottles for Perfumes and Volatile Salts, of which the following is a specification:

The bottle is one of a class, now very popular, in which the stopper is connected by a screw-thread, and in which it needs to be un-- screwed only a little way in order to allow the odor to escape, The advantages are obvious. Our invention provides orifices near the neck or mouth, and a cover which is capable of being forced into tight contact with the bottle exterior to these orifices. When the cover is screwed down, the exterior of the bottle presents no orifice liable to become clogged with dust, or otherwise subject to obstructions.

The following is a description of what we consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical central section, showing the entire bottle with its cover tightly closed. Fig. 2 is a plan View of bottle with the cover removed. Fig. 3 is a Vertical section, showing a modification with its cover a little unscrewed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the body, and B the stopper or screwcap. Both of these may be of precious metal. WVe will designate some of the parts of each by a b, &c.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, a is an internal screw-thread formed in the neck of the bottle A, and adapted to receive a corresponding male screw-thread, I), of the cover or stopper. a is a slightly-raised and smoothly-finished rim or annular bearing-surface, and b is a flange formed on the stopper B, and adapted to fit tightly thereon when the stopper is screwed down. Holes 0 are formed in the bottle just within the bearing-surface a I).

Fig. 3 represents a modification in which the neck of the bottle A is extended upward above the tight bearing-surface a, and the screw to is a male screw formed on the exterior of such extended neck. A female screw, 1), on the interior of the hollow cap B, engages with the screw a. and lowers the cap or cover as it is turned, so as to bring the bearing-surfaces b a into tight contact, or open them, as desired. The openings c are oblique holes formed in the bottle at the points indicated.

So long as the stopper B is screwed down, the contents are tightly inclosed; but the odor hasfree communication through the holes 0. When the stopper is unscrewed, the odor circulates freely out between the cap and the body.

In both forms of the device there is a male and female screw properly matched in the cert ter, then liberal openings 0 outside thereof, and the tight-closed joint a 1) outside of or beyond them.

Ye claim as our invention- A perfume-bott1e having a stopper, B, with a tightly-fitting joint, a I), at the periphery, apertures c in an intermediate position, and a screw-connection near the center, all combined and arranged as herein specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 9th day of June, 1873, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. WILLIAM, D. VVHITING.

WM. M. OOWAN. CHARLES E. BULKLEY. Vitnesses N. M. BELL,

A. HARRIS,

CHARLES SELDEN,

JOHN G. PURKIs.

CFFIGE.

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